This is a tried and tested recipe at Lindy HQ. We all love our accounts lady, Olive’s flapjacks. They are oatylicious, not too sweet and have just the right amount of chew! Olive likes to adorn hers with a decadent topping of dark chocolate, but these flapjacks are just as delcious naked! Or, if you would like just a hint of chocolate try drizzling some randomly over the
Chocolate and raspberry cupcake recipe
August 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Some taste combinations work beautifully together and one of my favourites at the moment is raspberry and dark chocolate. These two ingredients not only look fantastic together but compliment each other extremely well, as the tartness of the raspberries is balanced by the sweetness of the chocolate.
This year, the raspberries at the bottom of my garden are being wonderfully prolific, which has meant I’ve been able to experiment… Continue reading
Bake a Chocolate & Guinness Cake for Morning Coffee!
July 12, 2011 By 4 Comments
Morning tea or coffee is a very important part of a Lindy Smith workshop. Our expert assistant Sally is well known in our student circles for her baking – her Lemon Drizzle cake is divine. But today we were treated to the most glorious cake, it wasn’t baked by Sally… oh no…she is on vacation, but by our very own workshop co-ordinator, Jane, who came up with a beauty. A… Continue reading
Prince William’s Chocolate biscuit wedding cake
May 2, 2011 By 7 Comments
Prince William certainly isn’t the first and, after Friday’s Royal Wedding, will definitely not be the last to request a chocolate biscuit cake at his wedding!! The cake is said to be a childhood favourite of Prince William’s, one that appears in Princess Diana’s personal chef, Darren McGrady cookbook ‘Eating Royally‘.
“I was thrilled to learn that Prince William had chosen the Chocolate Biscuit… Continue reading
Yummy Vegan Chocolate Cake Recipe
April 13, 2011 By 7 Comments
Invariably my teenage son and his friends arrive in my kitchen, just as I’m taking a cake or cupcakes out of the oven! They are of course ‘starving’ and simply have to cake…..however sometimes I feel very mean, as one of my son’s friends is allergic to eggs – a dry biscuit is not quite the same as a freshly baked cake!!! So when I stumbled across a vegan chocolate… Continue reading
Delicious chocolate fudge cake recipe as baked by Lindy
February 2, 2011 By 132 Comments
I have been experimenting recently with a chocolate fudge cake recipe that my sister gave me years ago. I love the chocolate cake recipe that appears in many of my cake books but it does take a while to make and creates loads of washing up to do afterwards! The Chocolate mud cake recipe on this blog is also very popular with my family but it is a… Continue reading
Flavouring Madeira Cakes
March 6, 2009 By 16 Comments
Often Madeira cake is left plain but there are lots of ingredients that you can use to add a different flavour.
For a six egg quantity Madeira, an 20cm (8 inch) round cake, try one of the following
Why does Lindy use Madeira cakes?
February 27, 2009 By 135 Comments
We are often asked “Can you use a carrot cake/Victoria sponge etc?”
The simple answer is that Lindy prefers not to for two reasons.
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